That popular little character, Gingerbread baby, is back. Gingerbread baby needs some friends but can he make them? Can he talk to them? Where do you find friends for gingerbread babies? This is an adventure he’ll never forget. Read more details, along with lesson plans, classroom helpers, a recipe for gingerbread and instructions for a […]
Presentation designer and internationally acclaimed communications expert Garr Reynolds, creator of the most popular Web site on presentation design and delivery on the net -- presentationzen.com -- shares his experience in a provocative mix of illumination, inspiration, education, and guidance that will change the way you think about making presentations with PowerPoint or Keynote. Presentation […]
"Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it." Ellen Glasgow
Check out Bert Decker's analysis of Barak Obama's speechhttp://www.bertdecker.com/experience/2008/11/transformational-election---and-speech.html Relive the speech herehttp://www.consultpivotal.com/barak.htm
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. Plato
by Jane Austen"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." Next to the exhortation at the beginning of Moby-Dick, "Call me Ishmael," the first sentence of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice must be among the most quoted in […]
In partnership with CAL (Copyright Agency Ltd), e:lit (the new name of the Primary English Teaching Association) has developed an e-manual for new authors who would like to present talks and workshops in primary schools. The manual is based on the information and ideas presented in a 3 day training course trialled with a dozen […]
< The study of vocalics or paralanguage deals with the non-verbal qualities of speech. These qualities include pitch, amplitude, rate, and voice quality. Linguists argue that the way in which a person says something often means more than the actual words being spoken. Paralanguage instantaneously conveys information such as gender, education, origin, mood, and our […]
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by Cassandra Clare The past few weeks have been hectic for Clary Fray to say the least, and they only seem to get even more so in the sequel to Cassandra Clare's popular debut City of Bones. Clary's mother still hasn't awoken from her strange sleep induced by Jace and Clary's father, Valentine, and Jace […]
